The US Supreme Court and constitutional courts around the world regularly use the term
human dignity when deciding cases about freedom of speech, reproductive rights, racial …

Over the past several decades, human dignity has become an omnipresent idea in
contemporary law. This Article surveys the use of human dignity by domestic and …

What is at stake in a sex equality approach to reproductive rights? At first glance, equality
arguments would seem to entail a shift in constitutional authority for reproductive rights-for …

When journalists, academics, and politicians describe the North American anti-abortion
movement, they often describe a campaign that is male-dominated, aggressive, and even …

This article analyzes the nature of contemporary anti-abortion discourse in Canada. Based
on a rigorous qualitative and quantitative analysis of the public discourse of a wide variety of …

The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women
in Africa (the Protocol) 1 is primarily the initiative of civil society. 2 Nongovernmental …

Though abortion is legal in Canada, policies currently in place at various levels of the health
care system, and the individual actions of medical professionals, can inhibit access to …

The idea that abortion rights are central to protecting women's health will hardly come as a
surprise to most reproductive rights advocates. For example, much of the recent litigation …

Travel is one of many extra-legal barriers that restrict access to abortion services.
Paradoxically, women travel at the international, domestic, and local levels to circumvent …

This article analyses abortion health activism (AHA) in the Irish context. AHA is a form of
activism focused on enabling abortion access where it is restricted. Historically, AHA has …